Chateaux of the Loire Valley
Cologne: Konemann, 1997. Photographs by Robert Polidori. Square 4to, pp. 360, colour ills., original boards, near-fine, in like d.j. Detailed description and photographs of 70 of the regions chateaux.
Cologne: Konemann, 1997. Photographs by Robert Polidori. Square 4to, pp. 360, colour ills., original boards, near-fine, in like d.j. Detailed description and photographs of 70 of the regions chateaux.
Vicenza, Italy: Giovanni Rossi, 1796. Scamozzi, Ottavio Bertotti. 1st ed. thus, being the first Italian edition in Quarto, Vol. 1 (of 4), text in Italian, pp.iv, 128, b&w engraved fronts port of Palladio, light chipping to edges, 52 engraved plates (some folding), lacks plate 2 but includes additional plate (facing.....
London: James Parker and Co, 1892. 12mo, original cloth boards with gilt title upper boards and spine, b&w plates, pp 265, iv. Gift inscription blank endpaper, dated 1893. Some marking to boards, ink marks to the outside edge of the text block not affecting text. Good condition. Copiously illustrated guide.....
London: Laurence King Publishing, 2004. 1st ed., Quarto, pp.240, incl Index, col and b&w illus., small pocket to ep, orig bds., v.g. in d.j. Ever since Louis Bleriot crossed the Channel from France to England in a monoplane in 1909 - the first international flight - architects have been fascinated.....
Balmain: Pesaro, 2005. Photography by Patrick Bingham-Hall. Quarto, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour illus, pp 128. Fine condn. Study of the Western Australian architectural firm.
Trivandrum: Government of Kerala, 1974. Royal octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, plans (some folding), folding colour map, pp 148 plus plates and plans. Previous owner's bookplate. Very good condition in good d.j. Scarce.
Delhi: Indological Book House, 1972. Roy octavo, cloth boards, b&w illus, profusely illus., folding plates. Previous owner's bookplate of Western Australian anthropologist D'Arcy Ryan, original cloth bds., spine faded, good condn. (Illustrations and plates in very good condition.) Ram Raz (Rama Raja) (1790–1830) was born in Tanjore. This reprint (1972).....
Melbourne: Viking O'Neil, 1990. 1st ed thus, quarto, pp.238, profusely illus., orig bds, d.j., very good condn. Definitive work on the use of cast iron in Australian architecture mainly during the Victorian period and the goldmining period in Australia.
Melbourne: Georgian House, 1960. 1st ed., 4to., pp xvi 229, b/w fronts., b/w plates, maps to e.ps., or. cl. bds., bumped corners, o/w v.g in price-clipped, protected d.j with sunned spine & top edges, torn (front left bottom corner & backstrip, appr. 6x10cm), sticker at front, tear 15 cm (no.....
Oxford: Architectural Press, 2005. Large octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, colour and b&w illus, pp x, 422 plus colour plates section. Borrowing envelope/card (private architectural reference library) to front fixed endpaper, very good condition.
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1951. 4to, pp. x, 199, Index, b/w ills., previous owner's inscription, original cloth boards, spine and edges rubbed, few small marks.
New York: George Braziller, 1960. Wraps, b&w plates, pp 125. Previous owner's bookplate. Some edgewear, very good condn. Masters of World Architecture series.Over 80 pages of reproductions including photographs, plans and drawings.
Sydney: National Trust of Australia (NSW), 1980. 4to, wraps, colour plates, b&w plates, pp 95. Pencilled underlining to one paragraph, o/w near-fine.
London: The Author, 1774. 1st ed., octavo, pp.iv, 296, (xvi, contents, subscribers), 'Sion College' stamp to verso of t.p. with stamp date, eps foxed with ink markings to fep, full leather, hinges weak, edges chipped and worn with some loss, cnrs bumped, later restored spine with red titled leather label.....
New Haven and London: Yale University Press for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2000. 1st ed., quarto, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w illus, pp.viii, 312. Near fine condition in like d.j., protected. Exanines the social history, design, construction and meanings of hospital and asylum architecture from the.....
New York: The Century Co., 1907. Illustrated Maxfield Parrish. Original cloth boards decorated in gilt,colur frontis plate, colour and b&w plates with captioned tissue guards, top edge gilt, pp xii, 270. With the bookplare of "The Library at Carolands" ffep (the Californian Gilded Age Mansion). Small San Francisco bookseller label.....
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981. First printing. Original two-tone cloth boards. dustjacket, b&w illus, pp 143. Small black mark bottom edge of text block, o/w fine condition in like d.j., protected. Tom Wolfe's criticism of the 'glass block' style of modern architecture, and particularly the International Style: "has.....